The trial of a 19-year-old accused of attempting to strangle a woman and threatening her with a knife in a house in Bury St Edmunds will take place early next year.

Before Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday (September 15) for a plea and trial preparation hearing via a prison video link was Isaac Tanna of no fixed address.

He pleaded not guilty to two offences of intentional strangulation which were allegedly committed on August 2 this year.

He also denied threatening the female victim of the alleged intentional strangulation charges with a kitchen knife in a property in St Andrew’s Street North, Bury St Edmunds on the same date.

His trial will take place on February 13 next year.

Judge Nicola Talbot-Hadley remanded Tanna in custody.